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The "Ripple Effect" : Cultural Differences in Perceptions of the Consequences of Events
| Title: | The "Ripple Effect" : Cultural Differences in Perceptions of the Consequences of Events |
| Authors: | Maddux, William W. Browse this author | | Yuki, Masaki Browse this author →KAKEN DB |
| Issue Date: | May-2006 |
| Publisher: | Sage Publications |
| Journal Title: | Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin |
| Volume: | 32 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page: | 669 |
| End Page: | 683 |
| Publisher DOI: | 10.1177/0146167205283840 |
| Abstract: | Previous research has demonstrated that people from East Asian cultural backgrounds make broader, more complex causal attributions than people from Western cultural backgrounds. In the current research, the authors hypothesized that East Asians would also be aware of a broader, more complex distribution of consequences of events. Four studies assessed cultural differences in perceptions of the consequences of 1) a shot in a game of pool, 2) an area being converted into a national park, 3) a CEO firing employees, and 4) a car accident. Across all four studies, compared to participants from Western cultural backgrounds, participants from East Asian cultural backgrounds were more aware of the indirect, distal consequences of events. This pattern occurred on a variety of measures, including spontaneously generated consequences, estimations of an event’s impact on subsequent events, perceived responsibility, and predicted affective reactions. Implications for our understanding of cross-cultural psychology and social perception are discussed. |
| Rights: | The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 32, No. 5, 2006 of publication, © 2006 Society for Personality and Social Psychology by SAGE Publications Ltd at the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin page: http://psp.sagepub.com/ on SAGE Journals Online: http://online.sagepub.com/ |
| Type: | article (author version) |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/33952 |
| Appears in Collections: | 文学院・文学研究院 (Graduate School of Humanities and Human Sciences / Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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Submitter: 結城 雅樹
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